"When you get two groups of people in a situation like that, the way to diffuse it is to get rid of one of the groups first."

"In this case it was the girls. They were outside for about 10 minutes and once they had left, we ejected the other guys.

"Putting both groups out in the street may have resulted in it escalating.

"In hindsight, perhaps we should have ejected the group of men first, but they were not being very vocal and the girls were, quite rightly, being vocal about someone who had threatened them so in that moment a decision was made to ask them to leave first."